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The Environment Agency recently released their LiDAR as Open Data meaning it is now free to use and without restrictions. You can read a bit more about that here. For those unfamiliar, LiDAR, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging,…

After a year in the making, OSMC, the successor to Raspbmc, has reached final stable release status. Believe it or not, I’m now running this release on the original 256mb model B Raspberry Pi, the same one I preorderd on…

I recently upgraded my Raspberry Pi 256mb from Raspbmc to the OSMC Release Candidate, there were a few hiccups along the way so thought I’d document them here incase anyone else runs into the same issues. The OSMC RC install…

I recently took part in Bath:Hacked 2.1, a hackathon where 50 ish people were locked* in a room for 36 hours with a bunch of open data and asked to produce something useful or interesting to the people of Bath.…

After putting together my DIY GoPro grip I’ve been thinking up more DIY mounts to add to my growing collection of GoPro mounts! Here’s two of my latest additions. First up we have a pole, similar to a GoPole Reach……

Last month I entered my GPS running route map of Bath into the MapInfo MapHero competition. I entered the map into the “Map for Fun” category and was surprised to hear I won first prize, a Microsoft Surface tablet! Pretty…

Well it appears my blog and all its content has vanished! If you’re looking for a particular post then please check back in a day or 2 when I will have hopefully restored everything from a backup. Cheers.

As cool as a Hyperion/boblight/ambilight set up is, sometimes you want to disable the LEDs for whatever reason. You could SSH into your Pi and stop the Hyperion service or just flick the power switch on the LED power supply,…